- Title: Germany’s checks on Austrian border soon to be introduced on all land frontiers
- Date: 10th September 2024
- Summary: KIEFERSFELDEN, GERMANY (SEPTEMBER 10, 2024) (REUTERS) TRACKING VIEW THROUGH WINDSHIELD OF CAR PASSING BORDER FROM AUSTRIA INTO GERMANY ON A93 HIGHWAY GERMAN POLICEMAN’S STOP SIGNAL IN HAND AUSTRIAN CAR PASSING BORDER INTO GERMANY BEFORE POLICEMEN STOP DUTCH-REGISTERED CAR VIEW OF GERMAN BORDER POLICE POST GERMAN BORDER POLICE WATCHING PASSING TRAFFIC TRACKING VIEW THROUGH
- Embargoed: 24th September 2024 09:24
- Keywords: Austria Belgium Denmark France Germany Luxembourg Netherlands asylum border checks controls illegal migration
- Location: KIEFERSFELDEN, GERMANY
- City: KIEFERSFELDEN, GERMANY
- Country: Germany
- Topics: Europe,Asylum/Immigration/Refugees,Government/Politics
- Reuters ID: LVA001288710092024RP1
- Aspect Ratio: 16:9
- Story Text:German police carried out random checks at the border with Austria on Tuesday (September 10), hours after the government in Berlin announced plans to introduce tighter control at all of its land borders from Sept. 16, set to initially last for six months.
The country last year announced stricter controls on its land borders with Poland, the Czech Republic and Switzerland. Those and controls on the border with Austria had allowed it to return 30,000 migrants since October 2023, it said.
The European Union is dealing with an increase in legal and illegal migrant arrivals, spurring some member countries to temporarily reintroduce border checks within what is normally a wide area of free movement - the Schengen zone.
Schengen's rules allow this "as a last resort" to avert serious threats to internal security or public policy.
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